REP. CHILDERS COSPONSORS BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO INCREASE OIL DRILLING, LIFT OFFSHORE BAN
August 01, 2008
August 01, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., (1st CD) issued the following news release:
Congressman Travis Childers (D-MS) today signed on as an original cosponsor of bipartisan legislation to increase U.S. land available for oil drilling. The National Conservation, Environment, and Energy Independence Act would lift the offshore drilling ban, open the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to gas and oil production, and release 70 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Rese . . .
Congressman Travis Childers (D-MS) today signed on as an original cosponsor of bipartisan legislation to increase U.S. land available for oil drilling. The National Conservation, Environment, and Energy Independence Act would lift the offshore drilling ban, open the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to gas and oil production, and release 70 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Rese . . .